We both love brunch. More the swank Sunday late-morning-to-early-afternoon meal eaten in a restaurant than the cost-saving college dining hall brunch. So what is it about this meal that’s so appealing to a certain subset of American culture? And is it really our only exclusively social meal?

Here’s what we savored:

• Mardi Gras brunch at Rosebud, an Atlanta restaurant
• Poutine
• “The Simpsons” episode “Life in the Fast Lane“
• Hipsters
• The association between alcohol and brunch
• The Web series “My Drunk Kitchen” (be mindful of the swears if they bother you)
• Chefs’ love-hate relationship with brunch
• Pajama brunch and princess brunch
• The invention of brunch: earlier than we thought!
• The popularity of brunch: also earlier than we thought, thanks to movie stars in the ’30s!
• Limerick stacks, Scotch eggs and all manner of potatoes
• Dim sum and chicken feet
• A Simply Orange survey reporting that New York City is the brunch capital of the United States
• Early Girl Eatery and Sunny Point Café in Asheville, N.C.
• Hobbit Day
• “The Casserole Queen’s Cookbook“(and, earlier, Disney cookbooks, of which Holly has many)
• Monte Cristo sandwiches, croque-monsieur and croque-madame
• College humor: Brunchables
• Listener mail! From Robert, who wrote to us about How to Build a Southerner for Your TV Show or Movie
• How Hangovers Work

My research:

• The Brunch Culture: Others may argue, but New York City trumps in the art of this  meal
• Smithsonian.com. The Birth of Brunch: Where did this meal come from anyway?
• America Votes New York City “Brunch Capital of the United States”
• New York Times. “At Brunch, the More Bizarre the Better”
• New York Times. To Quash Lupper, Start with Brunch

Episode link: Let’s do brunch!

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